The country’s skills development drive will be jeopardised if the government implements proposals to reduce the number of technikons. This warning is at the heart of the technikon sector’s vigorous counter-attack against the proposals, which aim to reduce the current 15 technikons to six.
Once a popular haunt for wealthy businessmen and home to large numbers of long-term Jewish residents, The Crest is now the stamping ground for an ever-expanding group of Nigerians who began moving in about five years ago.
It may not be able to provide the answer to life, the universe and everything else, but the new million-dollar supercomputer about to arrive at the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (Sanbi) may help find why some Africans are immune to HIV.
Misfortune struck twice for Happiness Ngamulana, a mother of two living in rural Tabankulu in the Eastern Cape. Her unemployed husband died in January and the Department of Social Development stopped the monthly social grant of R570 he used to receive.
The Guardian‘s correspondent in Zimbabwe, Andrew Meldrum, was put on trial in Harare on Wednesday accused of publishing a false story in a test case for the state’s restrictive media laws. If convicted he could face up to two years in prison.
When Minister of Public Service and Administration Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi promulgates regulations on the restructuring of the public sector this Friday, she will do so without the support of the two largest public service unions.
The Western Cape government continues to employ two of the apartheid-era National Intelligence Service (NIS) operatives — Irene Engelbrecht and Herman du Toit — handpicked by former provincial director general Niel Barnard, who set up and headed the NIS until 1992.
The African incarnations of the World Economic Forum -are a bit like beauty pageants for folk from Uglyville. Lumpy African leaders parade wearing their best ”to-know-me-is-to-love-me” smiles and all tell how much they adore the free market.
There is something dream-like about contemplation of the drift to war in Kashmir. In Britain concerns were focused on the evacuation of its citizens and the destination of refugees.
Are South African intelligence services using a controversial French businessman in their Congo peace bid? The answer to a recent parliamentary question suggests they may be. Jean-Yves Ollivier, has long been regarded as a frontman for French intelligence.